Patrick is a BIAN, Cobit 5, TOGAF 9.2, ArchiMate 3.1 and SFIA 6 certified enterprise architect. He has more than 25 years of experience in the different domains of enterprise architecture in financial institutions, Retail, Government, Utilities, etc.

He has a master's in Commercial Engineering and at the University of Leuven KUL and he also graduated in insurance sciences. In 2009 he was awarded and nominated as a fellow of the University of Leuven.

He is a founding member and director of the Data Management Association. He is also the lead architect of BIAN, Managing Partner of Envizion and Trainer for several accredited training institutes such as Van Haren and BiZZdesign.